73901X1 Cornell University Press, Ithaca: 1984. 472 pages. Softcover. Brand new book. Paints a vivid portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, the man and the composer. It offers 50 eye-witness accounts written by contemporaries of Verdi who knew and talked to him. Edited by an eminent Verdi scholar and arranged in the order of the events they describe, the pieces cover a period of over half a century, from 1845 to 1900. Most of them have never before been published in English. Among the contributors are composers (Massenet, Mascagni, musicologists (Destranges, Bonaventura, Tebaldini, literati (Ghistanzoni, Giacosa, Annie Vivanti, artists, musicians, and above all, critics and journalists. Translated into English from the Italian by Richard Stokes. Includes an Index. ISBN: 0801494303 $32.50USD
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